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Oh this book looks interesting ... Kathleen do you know the part in Don Quixote where the priest and the barber go through the Don's books to throw them out or burn them because they want him to stop thinking he's a knight but then they keep finding books they themselves like, and they say "Wait wait I like this one, let's keep this one" ...? That's what I think of when I think of book banning ...

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O, that is one of the best episodes.. In Wikipedia there is a category of fictional libraries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_libraries and it is my favorite. with Borges.

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On my reading challenge for this year is a book written in the Middle East - putting this one on my list!

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It was just translated but published in 2019. The footnote links to a set of reviews at the website,. The COMPLETE REVIEW. It is a deep resource in old fashioned Web style.

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